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Understanding the Heterogeneity in Decentralized Environmental Policies Public Deposited
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This dissertation studies the heterogeneity in decentralized air pollution, water pollution, and transportation policies, and identifies implications for optimal policy design. The first chapter investigates whether states exhibit beggar-thy-neighbor and free-riding behaviors when implementing nonpoint-source (NPS) water pollution policies. I find that rivers within 30 km of state borders are less likely to be treated by more decentralized policies. Each behavior leads to a large deadweight loss. The second chapter conducts a large-scale study of the effectiveness of a variety of driving restriction policies in a variety of locations in China. I show that policy details and pollution concentration are the major factors that affect the actual and estimated effects of driving restriction policies, and also a potential explanation for earlier studies that showed driving restriction policies had little effect. In the third chapter, my co-author and I estimate time-varying and location-specific congestion costs across California's highways. We find that toll incidence increases with income. Black and Asian households bear more toll costs per day in location-based congestion tolls compared to white households.
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